The situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty is very bad, but don't think that now that the army is going south, it is impossible to immediately eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division!

"Li Hongji's strategy at least satisfies the interests of some wealthy businessmen, those big silk families, official gentry and businessmen, they celebrate each other, and they are very happy." Ye Hua sneered: "Although these people will engage in smuggling for the sake of profit, they will dig up the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty. But they are not stupid, if the big week is over, the good days will be gone, so most of them will adopt a two-handed strategy. ”

Chai Rong said thoughtfully: "Secretly smuggling with Da Zhou to make money, but on the surface, take out more strength to support Li Hongji?" ”

Ye Hua nodded, "Your Majesty, if the minister's expectations are good, the current Jinling, I am afraid that he will desperately arrange His Majesty and say that His Majesty is a powerful ghost who eats people, so as to scare the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty and make them loyal and continue to follow Li Hongji." ”

I have to say that Ye Hua's judgment is really accurate enough, on Chai Rong's desk, there are many secret reports sent by embroidered messengers, and those scholars who fled south have exhausted all means to slander Da Zhou and desperately pour cold water.

It's just that the worst person who was scolded was not Chai Rong.

"Ye Qing, your reputation in Jiangnan is much more terrifying than mine! They say that you have a green face and fangs, and you eat people's hearts and livers, and you need thirty beautiful women to serve you every day, and they say that you are ugly and ugly! The more Chai Rong spoke, the happier he became, and he couldn't help but gloat, two people were unlucky, it was better than one person being scolded!

Ye Hua is stupid!

Obediently, I admit everything you say, how can you say that Lao Tzu is lustful?

There is only one in my family, and this one has made me unable to resist, where do I dare to mess with flowers and grass!

Besides, Lao Tzu is not ugly no matter how you look at it!

Ye Hua is slender, coupled with martial arts training, although he is not as muscular as Zhao Kuangyin, so toned and exaggerated, but at least the lines are smooth, the muscles are distinct, and he is full of fresh meat!

Ahh

Ye Hua gritted his teeth in anger.

"Anyway, with the support of these super wealthy families, in a short period of time, Li Hongji can still control hundreds of thousands of people, and he has a way to collect money, at least he will not be in arrears of military salaries, on the contrary, Wu Yue's situation is even more difficult, they have gone through three generations of five lords, and they have long since lost their original blood and bravery, and there are many shortcomings in the country, and they are detached from morality. Wu Yue couldn't resist the pressure of the Southern Tang Dynasty externally, bent his knees and betrayed the country, and he couldn't appease the people internally, and Wu Yue's gentry and bureaucrats were greedy for ink and black hearts, even far beyond the Southern Tang Dynasty. ”

Ye Hua's words were thorough and convinced Chai Rong.

In the final analysis, only what is in your own hands is the real power, relying on others, you can't count anything!

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we should focus on the sailors and use three or five years to form a strong navy, which is the top priority!"

Ye Hua further suggested, "The minister thinks that he can establish a military port and a shipyard in Dengzhou and Jiaozhou, and this matter can be left to Mrs. Chai." ”

Hearing Ye Hua mention his father, Chai Rong immediately frowned.

"Ye Qing, this is a military matter, don't come nonsense!"

"Your Majesty, don't be impressed by each other for three days, and don't always look at people with old eyes. Chai Taifu can now bear the rise and fall of the Great Zhou! ”

Chai Rong expressed serious doubts that his father could only let the Great Zhou decline, and it was still a decline to the end!

Ye Hua is really indignant, he is also my apprentice! If Chai Shouli is still such a rice bucket, wouldn't it mean that I, the master, am a failure!

It just doesn't make sense!

Ye Hua stretched out two fingers, "Your Majesty, Mrs. Chai got this gold for Da Zhou!" ”

Chai Rong frowned and said, "I just heard that he got a lot of widows from overseas, by the way, you also bought a lot of them in your house!" "Speaking of which, the emperor of a country is shameful enough to do human trafficking, but Chai Rong also wants to open it, and it is better for his father to toss outside than to harm Da Zhou, so he will go, but this is always very boring.

Ye Hua chuckled, "Your Majesty, it's true that Taifu introduced women in the Wa Kingdom, but there are a lot of gold and silver minerals in the Wa Kingdom, all of which are lacking in the Great Zhou. Mrs. Chai has already gotten 20,000 taels of red gold for Da Zhou! The future reform of the currency system will all rely on this gold as a guarantee! Your Majesty, what you said Taifu did, is it important? ”

Chai Rong became more and more surprised, his father, who was specially Hu Lai, really did such a big thing? Chai Rong still didn't believe it, he asked again and again, Ye Hua didn't need to hide it.

Chai Shouli went to Youzhou to do business, and then got a fleet in Dengzhou, which went to Goryeo, Waguo, and even Liaodong to trade...... The Wa Kingdom was rich in gold and silver, but the technology was backward and could not be mined, Chai Shouli provided them with technology under the banner of trade, and then went to Goryeo to capture slaves and sell them to the Wa mines, and the Wa State mined gold and silver, and then took them out and exchanged them with the Great Zhou.

This business model was designed by Ye Hua and perfectly implemented by Chai Shouli, and now it has seen results, and gold has been shipped back to Da Zhou one after another.

In addition to the Wa Kingdom, the vast eastern part of Liaodong, especially the primeval forest areas north of the Heilongjiang River, has rich gold reserves. Now it is still the territory of the Jurchen Shengfan, they are very barbaric and backward, and they are still in the stage of fishing, hunting and gathering, and it is very difficult to use them to pan for gold.

However, Chai Shouli still insisted on sending people over to understand the situation, contact the tribal leaders, and look for gold.

Infiltrating Liaodong is not only to obtain gold, but more importantly, in the future, the army will go out of the Great Wall and sweep the Khitan, and the chess pieces in Liaodong will come in handy.

"Your Majesty, Taifu is too old, and he really wants to seek wealth for himself, so he doesn't need to work so hard. He really wanted to share the responsibility for His Majesty, and the 20,000 taels of gold were saved by Taifu with great difficulty, and he told me that he planned to save 1 million taels and then give it to His Majesty. If you have a million taels of gold, you can send out tens of millions of gold coins, which is a huge amount of money! ”

Ye Hua sighed: "The things that Li Hongji did, the minister also thought about it in the early years, but later the minister felt that it was very inappropriate, if you want to develop industry and commerce, you must use commercial means to measure the world." What is a commercial means is nothing more than buying and selling, grain and cloth can be bought and sold, and labor can also be bought and sold! The first step in doing these things is to remeasure everything in money. ”

In Guo Wei's era, Ye Hua learned to think from the perspective of the overall situation, he combined the experience of the two worlds, and soon Ye Hua found that some things are far from being as simple as he thought.

Take the germ of capitalism mentioned in the textbook, and according to the idea given in the textbook, from germination to growth, first the accumulation of light industry, then the development of heavy industry, and finally industrial upgrading, complete industrialization...... This is a general process given in a textbook...... But I'm sorry, no country has achieved industrialization according to this classical process, and it can't do it at all!

The reason for this is that every step of development will have both positive and negative impacts.

For example, at the end of the most typical Ming Dynasty, relying on the three major fist products, one third of the world's silver has been obtained, which is very amazing in terms of proportion, but the problem is that it can't grow!

If we want to produce more silk, porcelain, and tea, we must occupy land and labor, and we will create unemployed and displaced people, and a large number of commodities will be put on the market, and a large amount of money will be replenished.

Ye Hua remembered that in his previous life, he had watched a series of programs called The Rise of Great Powers.

In this series of programs, it is all about how these big countries are wise and wise, make decisions, seize opportunities, and stand on the cusp...... But there is no mention of colonial expansion, plundering and exploitation!

How to resolve the contradictions between man and land, not to plunder gold and silver, how to denominate wealth in money, how to smoothly realize exchange, how to open up overseas markets without violence, how to obtain super-profits, how to encourage invention, and how to replace labor with machines...... The so-called rise of great powers is absolutely inseparable from colonial expansion, and it can be said that without blood, there will be no capitalism!

Of course, there is another way, that is, when there is no hope of plundering abroad, we should turn to the power of the state to first extract agricultural surpluses, nourish and strengthen industry, and then use industry to feed back agriculture, and use the rural areas as a major rear for alleviating development contradictions. In order to take this more difficult road, it has become an inevitable choice to divide the acres of land equally and effectively organize the peasants...... Therefore, the development process and the choice of the road are really not just anyone who can point fingers, and just move a mouth, you will never know the difficulties of the doer.

Ye Hua designed the development path for Da Zhou, he wanted to come together with two roads, to build a stable rural rear, to actively expand externally, absorb wealth, and expand the market.

From the very beginning, Ye Hua concluded that Li Hongji would lose very badly, and the reason was the same, he did not dare to reform and change the law internally, and wanted to expand externally, and there was the mountain of Da Zhou in the way, so he could not go down either way, and it was simply intolerable not to die.

Ye Hua and Chai Rong formed a deep friendship when they went north to hunt, and Chai Rong could easily understand some of Ye Hua's ideas.

"Ye Qing's judgment has always been convincing, but if Li Hongji can enslave Wu Yue and Jing Chu, and then control the Southern Han Dynasty and influence Bashu, he may not be able to kill a way!"

"So you can't let him succeed!" Ye Hua said: "Your Majesty, Wu Yue is useless, but this pirate leader who attacked and occupied Jinghai, he is a character!" ”

Chai Rong has always disliked bandits, officials and bandits are different, the emperor is the biggest official, and when he heard the pirate leader, he frowned.

"Wu Yue can't be counted on, can he still count on a water thief?"

"Your Majesty, the minister has heard that this water thief has thousands of subordinates, rampaging the rivers and seas, and even the sea ships in Persia and other places have to nod his head to pull the goods away!" Ye Hua said with a smile: "This group of pirates has mastered the most advanced navigation technology, and they are the best sea knights, if they can be pulled over, my Great Zhou Sailor can fight for ten years less!" ”